antiphrase
metaphor
equivocal
opposite
adverb
antonym
opposite word
vocable
transferred sense
sense
catachresis
connotation
loanshift
adnominal
ancestor
signification
notional opposite
polysemantic word
plesionym
polysemous word
polysemant
etymon
figure of speech
locution
term
define
phrasal
false friend
near-synonym
root
metalinguistic
nominalization
logomachize
synonym
pseudo-loan
grandiloquism
literally
cliché
parasynonym
twist
wrench
protologism
attributive
dictionary definition
loosely
counterdefinition
bless you
eggcorn
skunked term
Humpty Dumpty word
pronoun
definiendum
gainword
abbreviature
misdefine
agnonym
homograph
redefine
adequation
semantics
plerematic
antonymous
determinatum
semordnilap
proverbial
hard word
derivative
Britishism
homonym
definiens
pseudo-anglicism
accidental gap
abbreviation
adjective
poecilonym
prenominal
hypercorrect
cum
object language
confusable
dysphemism
phonemic
nonterm
lexical definition
shifter
reborrowing
import
significance
implication
autoantonym
verbalism
subsense
capitonym
like it's going out of fashion

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